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Credit Crunch Lunch - by the Hectic Host: two kids, two lunches, one week; under a tenner.

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I t seems that time is not the only thing of which we are all short: If the papers are to be believed we are all feeling the pinch at moment; and some of us in more ways than one – and me certainly more than an inch! As we all know a balanced diet early in life pays dividends in later years. Convenient, but expensive, prepared foods are full of hidden fat and sugar, cleverly piling on the pounds and haemorrhaging them at the same time! Whilst I guiltily packed slices of pizza and chocolate bars into my Godchildren’s backpacks on their last day of term I thought to myself that surely if one did one’s homework one could feed two children quick and nutritious lunches using fresh ingredients, sourced locally, and bring it all in at under £10. I put the challenge to chef and nutritionalist Suné Connell ( www.nutritionredefined.co.uk ) and can you believe it, Suné gave me change from a tenner! The following lunches are nutritionally balanced with good amounts of protein, carbohydrates, fat,

Leading light Isabella Smith's Pigalle pendant lamp, new to Roullier White

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Isabella Smith has been lighting up our lives, and our bathrooms and kitchens, here at Roullier White for a number of years; she has even made doing the dishes a pleasure. Since the day we first introduced Isabella's remarkable Maison Belle collection of eco-friendly household cleaners we were addicted. We believe Maison Belle to be the most effective range of ‘alternative’ cleaning agents around - completely people, pet and planet friendly - they work really, really, really well: leaving our homes gleaming and smelling remarkable; so much so in fact that people actually remark. All with no nasty chemical residue to seep into our skin or the environment. It is not surprising then; that when the Danish luminary suggested we introduce some other lines, like this lamp, from her Isabella Smith Country Store range we jumped at the opportunity. Our current bestseller, as featured in this month’s Period Living Magazine, is indeed this beautiful Pigalle pendant lamp in burnished silver. Th